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Mixed Harmonic Correlations: Hydrodynamics Predictions at RHIC using Experimental Analysis Techniques

Nuclear Theory 2018-03-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Correlations of different azimuthal flow harmonics vnv_n and symmetry planes Ψn\Psi_n can add constraints to theoretical models, and probe aspects of the system that are independent of the traditional single-harmonic measurements. Using NeXSPheRIO, a hydrodynamical model which has accurately reproduced a large set of single-harmonic correlations at RHIC, we make predictions of these new observables for 200 A GeV Au+Au Collisions, providing an important baseline for comparison to correlations of flow harmonics, which contain non-trivial information about the initial state. We also point out how to properly compare theoretical calculations to measurements using wide centrality bins and non-trivial event weighting.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04983,
  title  = {Mixed Harmonic Correlations: Hydrodynamics Predictions at RHIC using Experimental Analysis Techniques},
  author = {Fernando G. Gardim and Frederique Grassi and Matthew Luzum and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04983},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the XXVI International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2017)

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